Huh. I got quite a different distinction between the Marauders and the Twins. We hear in HBP that the majority of Sirius and James's detentions had to do with hexing random students (sort of contradicts their managing to get away with it, right?). Whereas the times we've seen or heard of the twins getting into trouble (with the school), it usually has to do with things along the lines of blowing up a toilet (PS) or setting off Dungbombs (PoA).
I suspect that the Marauders got away with a great deal during their school career (the notecards Harry had to transcribe may have been just the tip of the iceberg of their mischief). The existance of the Marauders Map was never discovered and the secret of the Invisibility Cloak probably did not come out until Seventh Year or later. Nor did anyone ever realize that three of the Marauders were Animagi (I wonder how many times Pettigrew changed into a rat to avoid capture...which might explain why the names of James and Sirius appeared most often in the notecards of punishments). Oh...I think the Marauders got away with murder (Sirius even attempted this literally but failed). I don't think that Fred and George ever tried to kill anyone on purpose though. ;)
Whereas the time we see the Marauders picking on a student, they are surrounded by other students who are openly laughing, and there is a very heavy air of "this is all a joke, can't you take it, hahaha?" which is used to conceal malice.
A great deal of the Marauders activities were done in secret (the Map, Cloak, Animagus forms), including the attempt by Sirius to harm Snape, so I don't think that an audience cheering them on was required by the Marauders. Perhaps, like ramped-up sense of Wizarding vengeance, the Wizarding sense of humor might also be severely out of whack?
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Date: 2005-09-11 11:08 pm (UTC)I suspect that the Marauders got away with a great deal during their school career (the notecards Harry had to transcribe may have been just the tip of the iceberg of their mischief). The existance of the Marauders Map was never discovered and the secret of the Invisibility Cloak probably did not come out until Seventh Year or later. Nor did anyone ever realize that three of the Marauders were Animagi (I wonder how many times Pettigrew changed into a rat to avoid capture...which might explain why the names of James and Sirius appeared most often in the notecards of punishments). Oh...I think the Marauders got away with murder (Sirius even attempted this literally but failed). I don't think that Fred and George ever tried to kill anyone on purpose though. ;)
Whereas the time we see the Marauders picking on a student, they are surrounded by other students who are openly laughing, and there is a very heavy air of "this is all a joke, can't you take it, hahaha?" which is used to conceal malice.
A great deal of the Marauders activities were done in secret (the Map, Cloak, Animagus forms), including the attempt by Sirius to harm Snape, so I don't think that an audience cheering them on was required by the Marauders. Perhaps, like ramped-up sense of Wizarding vengeance, the Wizarding sense of humor might also be severely out of whack?